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Hobbes: On the Citizen
Av Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
493 kr
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De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a rendition long thought (in error) to be at least …
Hobbes: Leviathan
Revised student edition
Av Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck
Häftad, 1996
313 kr
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Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of great political turmoil (Hobbes' life spanned the reign of Charles I, the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and the Restoration), Leviathan is an …
Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student edition
Inbunden, 1988
541 kr
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This is the revised version of Peter Laslett's acclaimed edition of Two Treatises of Government, which is widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas, read and used by students of political theory throughout the world. This 1988 edition revises Dr …
Stirner: The Ego and its Own
Häftad, 1995
650 kr
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Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own is striking and distinctive in both style and content. First published in 1844, Stirner's distinctive and powerful polemic sounded the death-knell of left Hegelianism, with its attack on Ludwig Feuerbach, Bruno and Edgar Bauer, Moses Hess and others. It also …
Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws
Av Charles de Montesquieu, Anne M. Cohler m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
667 kr
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The Spirit of the Laws is, without question, one of the central texts in the history of eighteenth-century thought, yet there has been no complete, scholarly English-language edition since that of Thomas Nugent, published in 1750. This lucid translation renders Montesquieu's problematic text newly …
Bernstein: The Preconditions of Socialism
Av Eduard Bernstein, Henry Tudor
Häftad, 1993
553 kr
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This 1993 book was the first complete new translation of Bernstein's famous and influential work. It will provide students with an accurate and unabridged edition of the classic defence of democratic socialism and the first significant critique of revolutionary Marxism from within the socialist …
Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student edition
Häftad, 1988
321 kr
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This is the revised version of Peter Laslett's acclaimed edition of Two Treatises of Government, which is widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas, read and used by students of political theory throughout the world. This 1988 edition revises Dr …
Ibn Khaldūn: Political Thought
Av Ibn Khaldun, Gabriel Martinez-Gros
Häftad, 2025
406 kr
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Ibn Khaldūn is one of the outstanding thinkers about the nature of society and politics in the pre-modern Arab world. This volume presents the political writings of the fourteenth-century philosopher, stressing their enduring relevance. Arnold Toynbee used to say that Ibn Khaldūn's work was the …
Leibniz: Political Writings
Av Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Patrick Riley
Häftad, 1988
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434 kr
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Leibniz's political and ethical writing long has been neglected, and with this new edition Professor Riley makes available the most representative pieces from Leibniz's political theory. This new edition, specially prepared for this series, is the first to make a considerable number of Leibniz's …
Filmer: 'Patriarcha' and Other Writings
Av Robert Filmer, Johann P. Sommerville
Häftad, 1991
568 kr
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In seventeenth-century England, patriarchalist thinking shaped English ideas not only about the family but also about society and the state. Many thinkers argued that the state should be seen as a family, and that the king held the powers of a father over his subjects. The classic texts of …
Hooker: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
Av Richard Hooker, A. S. McGrade
Häftad, 1989
487 kr
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The great Elizabethan divine Richard Hooker has occupied a prominent place in the intellectual history of the Church of England and sixteenth-century Protestantism but his wider significance has often been neglected. In his introduction to this selection of books from Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical …
Maistre: Considerations on France
Av Joseph de Maistre, Richard A. Lebrun
Häftad, 1994
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430 kr
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Joseph de Maistre's Considerations on France is the best known French equivalent of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. This new edition of Richard Lebrun's 1974 translation is introduced by Isaiah Berlin, with a bibliography and chronology by the translator. Published in 1797, …
Plato: 'The Republic'
Häftad, 2000
292 kr
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First published in 2000, this translation of one of the great works of Western political thought is based on the assumption that when Plato chose the dialogue form for his writing, he intended these dialogues to sound like conversations - although conversations of a philosophical sort. In addition …
Ibn Khaldūn: Political Thought
Av Ibn Khaldun, Gabriel Martinez-Gros
Inbunden, 2025
1237 kr
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Ibn Khaldūn is one of the outstanding thinkers about the nature of society and politics in the pre-modern Arab world. This volume presents the political writings of the fourteenth-century philosopher, stressing their enduring relevance. Arnold Toynbee used to say that Ibn Khaldūn's work was the …
The Radical Reformation
Häftad, 1991
569 kr
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This 1991 book is a collection of writings by early Reformation radicals which illustrates both the diversity and the areas of agreement in their political thinking. The texts are drawn from the period 1521-7, centring on the German Peasants' War of 1524-6. The thinkers represented - Muntzer, …
Pufendorf: On the Duty of Man and Citizen according to Natural Law
Av Samuel Pufendorf, James Tully
Häftad, 1991
439 kr
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On the Duty of Man and Citizen (1673) is Pufendorf's succinct and condensed presentation of the natural law political theory he developed in his monumental classic On the Law of Nature and Nations (1672). His theory was the most influential natural law philosophy of the seventeenth- and …
Nicholas of Cusa: The Catholic Concordance
Av Nicholas of Cusa, Paul E. Sigmund
Häftad, 1996
621 kr
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Now available in paperback, this is the first English translation of the most important work of political thought of the fifteenth century. The Catholic Concordance is the first major treatise to argue for consent through representative councils as a major prerequisite for legitimate law and …
Aquinas: Political Writings
Av Thomas Aquinas, R. W. Dyson
Häftad, 2002
667 kr
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Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) is a massive figure in the history of western thought and of the Catholic church. In this major addition to the Cambridge Texts series Robert Dyson (whose modern rendition of Augustine's City of God has already been widely acclaimed) has chosen texts by Aquinas that show …
Sorel: Reflections on Violence
Av Georges Sorel, Jeremy Jennings
Inbunden, 1999
1188 kr
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Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence is one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century: J. B. Priestley argued that if one could grasp why a retired civil servant had written such a book then the modern age could be understood. It heralded the political turmoil of the decades that …
Condorcet: Political Writings
Av Steven Lukes, Nadia Urbinati
Häftad, 2012
455 kr
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Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-1794), the innovating founder of mathematical thinking in politics, was the last great philosophe of the French Enlightenment and a central figure in the early years of the French Revolution. His political writings give a compelling vision of human progress across world …
William of Ockham: A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government
Av William of Ockham, Arthur Stephen McGrade
Inbunden, 1992
1237 kr
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William of Ockham (c. 1285-c. 1347) was the most eminent and influential theologian and philosopher of his day, a giant in the history of political thought. He was a Franciscan friar who came to believe that the Avignonese papacy of John XXII had set out to destroy the religious ideal on which the …
Gramsci: Pre-Prison Writings
Av Antonio Gramsci, Richard Bellamy
Häftad, 1994
253 kr
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This 1994 collection of Gramsci's pre-prison writings, translated and including a number of pieces not previously available in English, covers the whole gamut of his journalistic activity, ranging from general cultural criticism to commentaries on local, national and international events. These …
The Federalist
With Letters of Brutus
Av Alexander Hamilton, James Madison m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
493 kr
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The Federalist represents one side of one of the most momentous political debates ever conducted: whether to ratify, or to reject, the newly-drafted American constitution. To understand the debate properly requires attention to opposing Antifederalist arguments against the Constitution, and this …
Constant: Political Writings
Av Benjamin Constant, Biancamaria Fontana m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
601 kr
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This 1988 book is an English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant, one of the most important of modern French political theorists and writers. A Swiss protestant by birth, Constant was a prominent figure in French political life in the aftermath of the revolution of 1789, …
Seneca: Moral and Political Essays
Häftad, 1995
569 kr
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This volume offers clear and forceful contemporary translations of the most important of Seneca's 'Moral Essays': On Anger, On Mercy, On the Private Life and the first four books of On Favours. They give an attractive, full picture of the social and moral outlook of an ancient Stoic thinker …
Cicero: On Duties
Av Marcus Tullius Cicero, E. M. Atkins
Häftad, 1991
435 kr
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De Officiis (On Duties) was Cicero's last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of Roman Republican society as he saw them, revealing incidentally a great deal about actual practice. Writing at a time of political crisis after the …
Milton: Political Writings
Av John Milton, Martin Dzelzainis
Häftad, 1991
536 kr
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John Milton was not only the greatest English Renaissance poet but also devoted twenty years to prose writing in the advancement of religious, civil and political liberties. The height of his public career was as chief propagandist to the Commonwealth regime which came into being following the …
Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Av Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel, Allen W. Wood
Häftad, 1991
439 kr
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This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Hegel's last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory and the sociology of the modern state into …
Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority
Häftad, 1991
406 kr
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Martin Luther and John Calvin were the principal 'magistral' Reformers of the sixteenth-century: they sought to enlist the cooperation of rulers in the work of reforming the Church. However, neither regarded the relationship between Reformed Christians and the secular authorities as comfortable or …
Bodin: On Sovereignty
Av Jean Bodin, Julian H. Franklin
Häftad, 1992
368 kr
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Bodin's Six livres de la république is a vast synthesis of comparative public law and politics, the theoretical core of which is formed by the four chapters translated in this volume. These contain his celebrated theory of sovereignty, which informed his thinking on the state and made his …
